Wages at the regionals, where smaller, narrow-body aircraft prevail, are lower than wages for Flight Attendants at the âmajorsâ or mainline carriers. The Flight Attendant pay scale at American Eagle Airlines for example, tops out at $33 per hour after 13 years of service. Needless to say commuter Flight Attendants probably arenât as jet-lagged as their mainline counterparts who do overseas flying.
January 22, 1913. Tokyo, Japan. Tokugawa Yoshinobu, original name Tokugawa Keiki (born Oct. 28, 1837, Edo, Japanâdied Jan. 22, 1913, Tokyo) the last Tokugawa shogun of Japan, who helped make the Meiji Restoration (1868)âthe overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperorâa relatively peaceful transition.
The Minamoto clan held power only until 1219, when the line died out and was replaced by the Hojo, but Yoritomo's shogunate set the pattern for governmental structure in Japan until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. After his death, some of Yoritomo's ashes were enshrined at Koya-san. Legendary warrior and founder of the shogunate -a feudal form of government that lasted nearly 700 years. Born into the Minamoto family, a powerful military clan of imperial descent, Yoritomo was exiled as a youth after an abortive rebellion in 1160 against the rival Taira family in which his father died.